March 5

March 5 in the history of the Birmingham District:

1963: The 1963 Birmingham municipal election was held.
1959: The Birmingham Zoning Board denied a request by Republic Steel to rezone a section of Red Mountain above Valley View Drive to "heavy industrial" to allow for strip mining.
1946: Eleanor Bridges reorganized the Civiettes Club.
1931: Samuel Peck was made the first official Poet Laureate of Alabama.
1905: William Jelks resumed his term as governor after a period of tuberculosis treatment in New Mexico.
1877: John Tyler Morgan was sworn in to the U.S. Senate.
1873: The first Episcopal Church of the Advent building was completed.

John Witherspoon DuBose, born March 5, 1836

Births

1952: Dennis "The Rock" Dumas was born.
1951: Singer-songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey was born in Birmingham.
1944: Reality show contestant and Georgia judge Paschal English was born in Birmingham.
1941: Golf instructor Hank Johnson was born in Birmingham.
1933: Real estate developer and newspaper publisher Joe Dickson was born in Montgomery.
1926: Jazz musician Henry Blankenship was born.
1836: Historian John Witherspoon DuBose was born in Darlington, South Carolina.

2018: Former U.S. Representative John Buchanan Jr died in Rockville, Maryland.
2012: Pants Store owner Mickey Gee died.
2011: Jemison police officer Josh Newman was killed in a traffic accident while responding to a call in Thorsby.
2009: Vulcan Materials executive and philanthropist Bill Ireland died.
1927: Restaurateur Louis Gelders died.
1912: Hotelier George Scoville died at the Morris Hotel.
1897: Former state legislator and Elyton Land Company shareholder Bolling Hall died in Coosada, Elmore County.

2004: Jerome Mincy bobblehead dolls were given away at a UAB Blazers home basketball game at the Bartow Arena.